OMDb API - The Open Movie Database
OMDb API

Sponsors

Emby, Trakt, FileBot, Reelgood, Xirvik Servers, Yidio, Edu Reviewer, Flixboss, Scripts on Screen, Topagency.webflow.io, Ramotion.com, Phone Trackers, Classics on DVD, Streaming App, Vid2 - Create movie lists with AI, Popflick, TV.GURU, Deploy Vision - Nearshore Software Development, Phictly, DoMyEssay, EssayPro, HomeworkGuy, The Streaming Codex, WriteMyEssay, RateSnap, FilmsRanked.com

Usage

Send all data requests to:

http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=[yourkey]&

Poster API requests:

http://img.omdbapi.com/?apikey=[yourkey]&

Parameters

By ID or Title

*Please note while both "i" and "t" are optional at least one argument is required.

By Search

Examples

Change Log

  • 04/08/19
    • Added support for eight digit IMDb IDs.
  • 01/20/19
    • Supressed adult content from search results.
  • 01/20/19
    • Added Swagger files (YAML, JSON) to expose current API abilities and upcoming REST functions.
  • 11/02/17
    • FREE KEYS! The "open" API is finally open again!
  • 08/20/17
  • 05/10/17
    • Due to some security concerns on how the keys were being distributed I updated the form to email them and also changed the algorithm used, which means your older keys not obtained through email will eventually stop working.
  • 01/12/17
    • Removed single character restriction from title/search results.
  • 06/11/16
    • "totalSeasons" count has been added to series results.
  • 1/20/16
    • To accommodate search paging "totalResults" is now returned at the root level.
  • 12/12/15
  • 11/16/15
  • 10/18/15
  • 9/9/15
    • New server is up, response times should be < 500ms.
    • Setup a CDN/Caching service with CloudFlare
  • 8/15/15
    • Created and Fixed a bad parsing error with JSON response. -Sorry about that!
    • HTTPS (with TLS) is now active: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  • 5/10/15